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Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Aarnout Ter Himpel
River landscape with a burning village
Lot Closed
March 24, 04:03 PM GMT
Estimate
2,400 - 3,400 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Aarnout Ter Himpel
Amsterdam 1634 - 1686
River landscape with a burning village
Pen and brown ink and grey wash heightened with white, on blue paper, within a drawn circle;
signed and dated in pen and brown ink at lower right margin: A. Ter Himpel f. omtrent ao 1680
unframed: 200 by 195 mm
framed: 350 by 345 mm
Throughout his career, Aernout ter Himpel frequently made landscape drawings in the format seen here, the circular composition drawn within a fictive frame, on a square sheet of paper. This is a particularly atmospheric example of one of his works of this type, executed on blue paper, and illustrating figures standing on the bank of a river looking out towards a distant blazing village, with plumes of smoke rising overhead. Two other very good landscapes by Ter Himpel using this circular framing device are in Weimar.1For other drawings by Ter Himpel in this sale, see lots 124 and 126.
1. Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar (Thüringen), inv./cat. nos. 5516 and 5517